Fwd: Fwd: MAPS-L: long-term preservation of geospatial data / digital collection development

[aph809]

Hello,

I am forwarding this for your possible interest.
So far as I know, there is not a great deal of cross-membership
between this list and CARTA-L.

Long-term preservation of, and access to, digital information is
a big issue among librarians these days.  Simply put, without
preservation, there is no long-term access.  And preservation entails
a good many complex issues, technical, legal, financial, and organizational.

Cheers,

Andrew

----- Forwarded message from marcel fortin <[hidden email]> -----
    Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 10:37:18 -0400
    From: marcel fortin <[hidden email]>
Reply-To: "CARTA-L : Canadian Map & GIS Libraries and Archives"
<[hidden email]>
 Subject: Fwd: MAPS-L: long-term preservation of geospatial data / digital
collection development
      To: [hidden email]

Apologies for cross-posting/forwarding but I thought this may be of
interest to those of you not on MAPS-L

-------- Original Message --------
Subject:        ESRI conference participation and digital collection
development
Date:   Fri, 28 Jul 2006 17:52:27 -0700
From:   Julie Sweetkind-Singer <[hidden email]>
To:     Maps-L <[hidden email]>

Hello,

Are you planning to attend the ESRI conference August 7-11th in San
Diego?  If so, and you are interested in collection development for
geospatial data, please continue reading.

The University of California, Santa Barbara's Map and Imagery Lab and
Branner Earth Sciences Library & Map Collections at Stanford are jointly
working on a project funded by the Library of Congress to research issues
surrounding the long-term preservation of geospatial data.  The project is
known as the National Digital  Information Infrastructure and Preservation
Program (NDIIPP).  The Web site for the entire NDIIPP project is
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ .  Our project has been named the
National Geospatial Digital Archive (www.ngda.org).  Both universities are
building long-term digital preservation environments and have begun
collecting geospatial data considered to be either "at-risk" or critical to
our mission to support the teaching and research at our universities.

There are two talks about NDIIPP and geospatial data preservation at the
upcoming meeting.  They will be held on Tuesday morning in room 29D of the
convention center.  The first is being given by the North Carolina State
University team working on preservation of geospatial materials at the
state level.  The second is the NGDA discussion.
10:45-11:15am:  Spatial Data Infrastructure and Data Preservation in North
Carolina
11:30-noon: Long-Term Archiving of Geospatial Data: The NGDA Project

In addition, Mary Larsgaard (UCSB), Tracey Erwin (SU), and I (SU) have been
working on a draft collection development policy specifically for digital
geospatial data.  The goals is to help librarians figure out what to
collect and what to consider when grappling with the issues of long-term
preservation of digital geospatial content.  We wanted to meet with
librarians at the conference to share the CD Policy and get feedback on how
to make it better.  There will be two forums to do so.

On Tuesday during the lunch convened by Angela Lee of ESRI, we will
introduce the Collection Development Policy.  We will then reconvene at 3pm
to discuss it in more depth with those of you interested in this
topic.  The lunch will be held in the Balboa Room, Marriott Hotel, from
noon to 1pm.  The afternoon CDP discussion will also be held in the Balboa
Room room from 3-5pm.

Please let me know if you are planning to attend.  I'd be happy to send you
a copy of the draft CDP beforehand.

Hope to see some of you there!

Best,

Julie


Julie Sweetkind-Singer
Head Librarian; GIS & Map Librarian
Branner Earth Sciences Library & Map Collections
397 Panama Mall, M/C 2211
Stanford University
Stanford, CA  94305
[hidden email]
Phone:  [phone]

----- End forwarded message -----


Andrew Hubbertz
Librarian Emeritus
University of Saskatchewan Library

613 692 2709
[hidden email]

[Tracey P. Lauriault-2]

thanks andrew!
One of my fave topics.  I have been working on this with Carleton U,
LAC, Ottawa U, GeoConnections and InterPARES 2.  And dang it, why does
it take so long?  There was a good session on the topic at GEOTec 2006.  
I particularly liked the airphoto, vanmap and science portal study.  
Perhaps i am biased though ;)  I am looking for the proceedings.

Andrew, do you have a few good links or readings you can recommend for
folks on this list to read?  Many are not in the library / archive field.

Also, what did you think of CitySondage -
http://civicaccess.ca/wiki/CitySondage?  If we had a good questionaire
put together would you be able to call City of saskatoon or Regina?

Cheers
t




[hidden email] wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am forwarding this for your possible interest.
> So far as I know, there is not a great deal of cross-membership
> between this list and CARTA-L.
>
> Long-term preservation of, and access to, digital information is
> a big issue among librarians these days.  Simply put, without
> preservation, there is no long-term access.  And preservation entails
> a good many complex issues, technical, legal, financial, and organizational.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andrew
>
> ----- Forwarded message from marcel fortin <[hidden email]> -----
>     Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 10:37:18 -0400
>     From: marcel fortin <[hidden email]>
> Reply-To: "CARTA-L : Canadian Map & GIS Libraries and Archives"
> <[hidden email]>
>  Subject: Fwd: MAPS-L: long-term preservation of geospatial data / digital
> collection development
>       To: [hidden email]
>
> Apologies for cross-posting/forwarding but I thought this may be of
> interest to those of you not on MAPS-L
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:        ESRI conference participation and digital collection
> development
> Date:   Fri, 28 Jul 2006 17:52:27 -0700
> From:   Julie Sweetkind-Singer <[hidden email]>
> To:     Maps-L <[hidden email]>
>
> Hello,
>
> Are you planning to attend the ESRI conference August 7-11th in San
> Diego?  If so, and you are interested in collection development for
> geospatial data, please continue reading.
>
> The University of California, Santa Barbara's Map and Imagery Lab and
> Branner Earth Sciences Library & Map Collections at Stanford are jointly
> working on a project funded by the Library of Congress to research issues
> surrounding the long-term preservation of geospatial data.  The project is
> known as the National Digital  Information Infrastructure and Preservation
> Program (NDIIPP).  The Web site for the entire NDIIPP project is
> http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ .  Our project has been named the
> National Geospatial Digital Archive (www.ngda.org).  Both universities are
> building long-term digital preservation environments and have begun
> collecting geospatial data considered to be either "at-risk" or critical to
> our mission to support the teaching and research at our universities.
>
> There are two talks about NDIIPP and geospatial data preservation at the
> upcoming meeting.  They will be held on Tuesday morning in room 29D of the
> convention center.  The first is being given by the North Carolina State
> University team working on preservation of geospatial materials at the
> state level.  The second is the NGDA discussion.
> 10:45-11:15am:  Spatial Data Infrastructure and Data Preservation in North
> Carolina
> 11:30-noon: Long-Term Archiving of Geospatial Data: The NGDA Project
>
> In addition, Mary Larsgaard (UCSB), Tracey Erwin (SU), and I (SU) have been
> working on a draft collection development policy specifically for digital
> geospatial data.  The goals is to help librarians figure out what to
> collect and what to consider when grappling with the issues of long-term
> preservation of digital geospatial content.  We wanted to meet with
> librarians at the conference to share the CD Policy and get feedback on how
> to make it better.  There will be two forums to do so.
>
> On Tuesday during the lunch convened by Angela Lee of ESRI, we will
> introduce the Collection Development Policy.  We will then reconvene at 3pm
> to discuss it in more depth with those of you interested in this
> topic.  The lunch will be held in the Balboa Room, Marriott Hotel, from
> noon to 1pm.  The afternoon CDP discussion will also be held in the Balboa
> Room room from 3-5pm.
>
> Please let me know if you are planning to attend.  I'd be happy to send you
> a copy of the draft CDP beforehand.
>
> Hope to see some of you there!
>
> Best,
>
> Julie
>
>
> Julie Sweetkind-Singer
> Head Librarian; GIS & Map Librarian
> Branner Earth Sciences Library & Map Collections
> 397 Panama Mall, M/C 2211
> Stanford University
> Stanford, CA  94305
> [hidden email]
> Phone:  [phone]
>
> ----- End forwarded message -----
>
>
> Andrew Hubbertz
> Librarian Emeritus
> University of Saskatchewan Library
>
> 613 692 2709
> [hidden email]
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> CivicAccess-discuss mailing list
> [hidden email]
> http://civicaccess.ca/mailman/listinfo/civicaccess-discuss_civicaccess.ca
>
>
>  

[aph809]

Tracey,

I am 'retired' from the University of Saskatchewan, and in
fact I now live in the Ottawa area.  Hence, not in a position to call
Saskatoon or Regina city offices.

On the question of readings on digital preservation...This is a huge and rapidly
growing area of research.  Perhaps the seminal document is
the OAIS Reference Model
(http://public.ccsds.org/publications/archive/650x0b1.pdf).

Some years ago, NASA discovered that data collected from some
of their space probes was undecipherable, because of degradation
of the medium and because record formats had been lost or forgotten.

In order to insure that such losses did not recur, a NASA committee
drafted a "Reference Model for an Open Archival Information
System (OAIS)".  From the outset, the Reference Model was meant to
be of general application and quickly became a draft ISO standard.

It is a high level document and VERY difficult reading.  Basically
it comes down to this:  what are the requirements for a trusted
repository for digital records?  i.e., what does a repository, archive,
etc. need to do so that a creator can be assured that material deposited
in the archive will be permanently available.

The central notion is that every digital object will be accompanied
through ingest, management, and delivery by information that adequately
describes the object, i.e. metadata.  The model also addresses the
organizational requirements, e.g. management and administration.

>From time to time, someone will claim that their product or service
is "OAIS compliant".  That is generally a bit of a stretch, as the
Model is very high level.  Presently, researchers are working on bits
and pieces of the Model, translating a high level objective into
something practical tools.

If you want to read more on OAIS, you might check the
RLG/OCLC site:  http://www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=3201

Also, you might check D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/).
This a highly respected and quite readable journal devoted to
digital libraries in every aspect.

Not all of this is relevant to preservation of numerical data...

My apologies if this stuff is common knowledge to you and other
members of the list.

Finally, I would be happy to meet with Ottawa members, given the
opportunity.  I am actively involved in library work, though not at
the moment involved in data services.

Yours,

Andrew






Quoting "Tracey P. Lauriault" <[hidden email]>:

> thanks andrew!
> One of my fave topics.  I have been working on this with Carleton U,
> LAC, Ottawa U, GeoConnections and InterPARES 2.  And dang it, why does
> it take so long?  There was a good session on the topic at GEOTec 2006.
> I particularly liked the airphoto, vanmap and science portal study.
> Perhaps i am biased though ;)  I am looking for the proceedings.
>
> Andrew, do you have a few good links or readings you can recommend for
> folks on this list to read?  Many are not in the library / archive field.
>
> Also, what did you think of CitySondage -
> http://civicaccess.ca/wiki/CitySondage?  If we had a good questionaire
> put together would you be able to call City of saskatoon or Regina?
>
> Cheers
> t
>
>
>
>
> [hidden email] wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am forwarding this for your possible interest.
> > So far as I know, there is not a great deal of cross-membership
> > between this list and CARTA-L.
> >
> > Long-term preservation of, and access to, digital information is
> > a big issue among librarians these days.  Simply put, without
> > preservation, there is no long-term access.  And preservation entails
> > a good many complex issues, technical, legal, financial, and
> organizational.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Andrew
> >
> > ----- Forwarded message from marcel fortin <[hidden email]>
> -----
> >     Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 10:37:18 -0400
> >     From: marcel fortin <[hidden email]>
> > Reply-To: "CARTA-L : Canadian Map & GIS Libraries and Archives"
> > <[hidden email]>
> >  Subject: Fwd: MAPS-L: long-term preservation of geospatial data / digital
> > collection development
> >       To: [hidden email]
> >
> > Apologies for cross-posting/forwarding but I thought this may be of
> > interest to those of you not on MAPS-L
> >
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject:        ESRI conference participation and digital collection
> > development
> > Date:   Fri, 28 Jul 2006 17:52:27 -0700
> > From:   Julie Sweetkind-Singer <[hidden email]>
> > To:     Maps-L <[hidden email]>
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Are you planning to attend the ESRI conference August 7-11th in San
> > Diego?  If so, and you are interested in collection development for
> > geospatial data, please continue reading.
> >
> > The University of California, Santa Barbara's Map and Imagery Lab and
> > Branner Earth Sciences Library & Map Collections at Stanford are jointly
> > working on a project funded by the Library of Congress to research issues
> > surrounding the long-term preservation of geospatial data.  The project is
> > known as the National Digital  Information Infrastructure and Preservation
> > Program (NDIIPP).  The Web site for the entire NDIIPP project is
> > http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ .  Our project has been named the
> > National Geospatial Digital Archive (www.ngda.org).  Both universities are
> > building long-term digital preservation environments and have begun
> > collecting geospatial data considered to be either "at-risk" or critical to
> > our mission to support the teaching and research at our universities.
> >
> > There are two talks about NDIIPP and geospatial data preservation at the
> > upcoming meeting.  They will be held on Tuesday morning in room 29D of the
> > convention center.  The first is being given by the North Carolina State
> > University team working on preservation of geospatial materials at the
> > state level.  The second is the NGDA discussion.
> > 10:45-11:15am:  Spatial Data Infrastructure and Data Preservation in North
> > Carolina
> > 11:30-noon: Long-Term Archiving of Geospatial Data: The NGDA Project
> >
> > In addition, Mary Larsgaard (UCSB), Tracey Erwin (SU), and I (SU) have been
> > working on a draft collection development policy specifically for digital
> > geospatial data.  The goals is to help librarians figure out what to
> > collect and what to consider when grappling with the issues of long-term
> > preservation of digital geospatial content.  We wanted to meet with
> > librarians at the conference to share the CD Policy and get feedback on how
> > to make it better.  There will be two forums to do so.
> >
> > On Tuesday during the lunch convened by Angela Lee of ESRI, we will
> > introduce the Collection Development Policy.  We will then reconvene at 3pm
> > to discuss it in more depth with those of you interested in this
> > topic.  The lunch will be held in the Balboa Room, Marriott Hotel, from
> > noon to 1pm.  The afternoon CDP discussion will also be held in the Balboa
> > Room room from 3-5pm.
> >
> > Please let me know if you are planning to attend.  I'd be happy to send you
> > a copy of the draft CDP beforehand.
> >
> > Hope to see some of you there!
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Julie
> >
> >
> > Julie Sweetkind-Singer
> > Head Librarian; GIS & Map Librarian
> > Branner Earth Sciences Library & Map Collections
> > 397 Panama Mall, M/C 2211
> > Stanford University
> > Stanford, CA  94305
> > [hidden email]
> > Phone:  [phone]
> >
> > ----- End forwarded message -----
> >
> >
> > Andrew Hubbertz
> > Librarian Emeritus
> > University of Saskatchewan Library
> >
> > 613 692 2709
> > [hidden email]
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > CivicAccess-discuss mailing list
> > [hidden email]
> > http://civicaccess.ca/mailman/listinfo/civicaccess-discuss_civicaccess.ca
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> CivicAccess-discuss mailing list
> [hidden email]
> http://civicaccess.ca/mailman/listinfo/civicaccess-discuss_civicaccess.ca
>

Andrew Hubbertz
Librarian Emeritus
University of Saskatchewan Library

613 692 2709
[hidden email]